Author Archives: Pistol Pete

by | November 9, 2017 · 3:40 pm

Election Cleanup

Just clearing some things I could have posted yesterday.

Gillespie Ran a JEB! Campaign in a Trump World


Conservatives were told that candidates like Ken Cuccinelli spelled certain doom, that the answer was a moderate establishment candidate. Tonight we now know that that candidate Ed Gillespie did worse than Ken Cuccinelli did. And Cuccinelli performed better without the support of the Virginia GOP establishment.

Ed Gillespie is certainly a good fellow. But his campaign used messages from 2004 and tactics from 1996. It seemed to exist outside of the ferocious upheavals of the modern polarized political world.

https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/gillespies-virginia-loss-messages-2004-tactics-1996/

In Virginia, Ex-Felons Voted For The First Time After Regaining Their Rights

“I now felt like a citizen. I now felt like I will make a difference in some kind of way,” said LaVaughn Williams, who voted for the first time on Tuesday.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-restoration-of-voting-rights_us_5a026556e4b092053058cd0e?slideshow=true#gallery/55ba7d3ce4b0b23e3ce1fbd5/0

Northam Win Fueled By Money From Obama-Backed Group, Steyer, Bloomberg

Prominent liberals combined to pour millions into Virginia to support Dem candidate Ralph Northam

A group backed by former President Barack Obama and headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder poured $1 million into the Virginia gubernatorial race in support of Democrat Ralph Northam, who on Tuesday defeated Republican Ed Gillespie.

Northam Win Fueled By Money From Obama-Backed Group, Steyer, Bloomberg

Oh, Here We Go: Hillary Taking Credit For Democratic Wins Last Night

First, it was to send a strong message to Trump, he animated the base to levels not seen since 2008, which was the year Obama won in a landslide win. With those figures, the GOP was going to get trashed.

Yet, do you know which person had nothing to do with it, but is attempting to take credit for it anyway: Hillary Clinton. It didn’t take long for her majesty to try and bathe in the afterglow of the Democrats’ wins last night in Virginia and New Jersey

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/11/08/oh-here-we-go-hillary-taking-credit-for-democratic-wins-last-night-n2406602

Perez Yells During Speech: ‘The New Democratic Party is Back’

[CtH: Wow.  This is as pathetic as the absurd screaming at the sky non-events.]

What the Exit Polls Can Tell Us about the Virginia GOP’s Disaster

The fairest and most accurate critique about Ed Gillespie is that his 2017 campaign was neither fish nor fowl. He had too much history as an Establishment insider to drive up big turnout among Trump’s voters, but his campaign’s autumn messages focusing on sanctuary cities, gangs, Confederate statues and felon voting rights were too “Trumpified” to win over those moderate suburban soccer moms.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453523/what-exit-polls-can-tell-us-about-virginia-gops-disaster

Night of change for Minneapolis City Council as first transgender candidate wins

http://www.startribune.com/long-night-for-minneapolis-incumbents-as-challengers-shake-up-race/456000313/

Dems Divided: Liberals Heckle Ralph Northam At His Own Election Night Party, Forcing Him Off Stage

[CtH: Yo, Perez. This is the same old rude and divisive Democratic Party.]

Republicans suddenly fear disastrous 2018

Clinton was such a horrible candidate that distaste for her may have held back the swing of college educated whites towards the Democrats,” Wilson said. “If that’s true, it’s a real problem and one that Republicans must address prior to 2018.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-suddenly-fear-disastrous-2018/ar-BBEJTlE?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE12DHP

House Dem’s new demand: Impeach Trump by Christmas

CONGRESSMAN CAVEMAN

I now announce that before Christmas, there will be a vote on the chief inciter of racism, bigotry, hatred, xenophobia, sexism and ethnocentrism,” he said on the House floor, adding that he prayed the United States will “continue to reject what the inciter in chief, Donald J. Trump has been causing this country to have to endure.”

[CtH: Trump isn’t racist, sexist, or any of the rest, though it is easy to make a compelling case that those who accuse him of these things certainly are.  So what exactly have we had to “endure”?  Vile, slanted, dishonest media reporting, definitely.  Shrieking, foul-mouthed celebrities, absolutely.  Democrat politicians doing what they’ve been doing for years — i.e., damning Republicans without coming up with anything constructive of their own.  But Trump?  What’s Trump actually done besides shoot off his mouth in tweets (which I personally find funny as hell)?]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/08/house-dems-new-demand-impeach-trump-by-christmas.html

Carr: Donald Trump hate is a cult

New moonbat religion eschews facts

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2017/11/carr_donald_trump_hate_is_a_cult

2 Comments

Filed under Democrats, Elections, Republicans

by | November 9, 2017 · 6:21 am

The Year-Long Temper Tantrum

It was just a year ago yesterday when the idyllic world of the progressives, dreams of total domination, a presidency that was theirs in perpetuity, and a new world order all paid for by somebody else came crashing down. In what may be an even bigger upset than Harry Truman defeating Thomas Dewey in 1948, an amateur politician, reality TV star, and billionaire hotel mogul named Donald Trump shocked the presumptive queen, Hillary Clinton, in stunning fashion.

This was her destiny. This is why she married a charming liar and took charge of silencing his sexual assault victims while “standing by her man,” because if she left him she had nothing. Being First Lady, a New York senator, and Secretary of State were just warmups for her real goal: president of the United States. The democrat party owed it to her.

After all, it was promised to her in 2008 until the party went head over heels for a street hustler from Chicago whose only qualification was that his daddy was African. She’d just have to wait her turn and spend her time scooping up hundreds of millions of dollars from companies and foreign countries who knew that when you want anything from the Clintons it’s going to cost you… big.

So confident of victory was she that she didn’t even bother even spending time in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Even after her people on the ground tried to warn her.  THEN…….

One Year Ago Today: Liberal Tears Flowed Like a River


27 Excuses Hillary Clinton Has Made for Her 2016 Election Loss
Here is a list of the 26 people, groups, ideologies – and even those who thought she would win – that Clinton blames for her failure to be elected president one year ago. The list was compiled by media outlets, including the UK Daily Mail, the BBC, the Daily Wire and Breitbart News.

[CtH:  There are two things that are not on this list but really should be. I.e., Trump voters and Hillary Clinton. Come to think of it, those are the only two things that should be on this list.]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/08/27-excuses-hillary-clinton-has-made-for-her-2016-election-loss/

WATCH: Liberals Gather to Scream at the Sky

This is hilariously funny and pathetic. And this actually tells you so much more than the off-term elections. Where are all the thousands and millions of unhappy people against Trump at this event and the November 4 Refuse Fascism event?

Philly, where there were more Republicans laughing than there were screamers.

Consider the alternative: How would Hillary have handled the hurricanes?  Would the Clinton Foundation been put in charge of relief efforts in Puerto Rico? It worked so well in Haiti.  Immigrants would surely be pouring over the border to grab a seat on the taxpayer gravy train.  What kind of Supreme Court would we have?  How many bodies would remain buried and uninvestigated?

One Year Later, Trump Making History on Judges and Supreme Court
President Trump has made 56 nominations thus far to the federal courts to fill the 166 current and upcoming vacancies on the bench, with more coming soon. Those nominees are the most consistently and provably conservative picks of any president since the courts became a political issue more than a half-century ago.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/08/one-year-later-trump-making-history-on-judges-and-supreme-court/

3 Comments

Filed under Donald Trump, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Leftism

by | November 8, 2017 · 12:17 am

A Big Night for Democrats

JUST MY OPINION
Virginia had been turning blue for a very long time, pushed by the northern suburbs that are actually part of the corrupt DC swamp. The most affluent counties in the country are located there. I get the sense that after tens of millions of dollars, some of the filthiest tactics imaginable, and finally getting a win after a series of stinging defeats, they will consider this validation for their non-stop assault on President Trump and everything he stands for. Their bed partners, the Enslaved Press have spearheaded the attacks ever since election day last year. They will continue the ham-handed beatdown of all that is right with this country. The GOP better take notice.

Democrats End Losing Streak
Ralph Northam holds on to become Virginia’s next governor
The win comes after a long string of defeats for Democrats that followed their crushing losses last November, when Republicans maintained control of both chambers of Congress and took the presidency.
The win further solidifies Virginia as a blue state: Democrats there have now won two straight gubernatorial elections, carried the state in three straight presidential elections, and have held both the state’s Senate seats since 2009. In 2016, failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton carried Virginia by five points.
For Gillespie, this is the second defeat in a statewide Virginia election in just three years—he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner in 2014, losing by a small margin.

Democrats End Losing Streak

Democrat Phil Murphy Wins New Jersey Governor’s Race
Democratic candidate Phil Murphy beat Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R.) on Tuesday night in the race to replace term-limited Gov. Chris Christie (R.).
Murphy morphed from a Goldman Sachs executive to a diehard progressive, campaigning for a $15 minimum wage, the legalization of marijuana, and standing against President Donald Trump, the New York Times reports.
In his pitch, Murphy told voters that New Jersey is “broken” and needs higher taxes on the wealthy.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/democrat-phil-murphy-wins-new-jersey-governors-race/

New Jersey winner: Victory sends a message to Trump
New Jersey’s next governor, Democrat Phil Murphy, says his party’s victory sends a message to President Donald Trump that the county is “better” than his politics of division.
Northam said in his victory speech that the eyes of the nation were on Virginia on Election Tuesday.
“Virginia has told us to end the divisiveness, that we do not condone hatred and bigotry,” he added. “In Virginia, it is going to take a doctor to heal our differences. I’m here to let you know the doctor is in. And this doctor will be on call the next four years.”
Northam also praised the state’s growing diversity and said he would work to make the state more inclusive. “Our lights will be on, our doors will be open,” he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-polls-open-nj-va-governors-races-50980524

De Blasio Wins Another 4 Years As NYC Mayor
During the campaign, other major progressive figures threw their weight behind de Blasio. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed him as candidate, as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“Everything that Mayor de Blasio is trying to do is exactly the opposite of what Donald Trump is trying to do,” Sanders said previously. “This mayor is leading the city in a way to bring us together.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/07/report-de-blasio-wins-another-4-years-as-nyc-mayor/

National Donations Help Transgender Win Statehouse Race in Virginia
Transgender activists spent $60 per vote in Virginia to defeat conservative Delegate Bob Marshall.
Danica Roem, a man living as a woman, got 10,800 votes in Manassas Park City and Prince William County after spending more than $600,000 in direct donations — mostly from transgender political groups — and getting plenty of support from local media. Thirteen-term Marshall’s campaign was largely ignored by business donors, such as the local Chamber of Commerce. The lack of funding made it difficult for Marshall to highlight Roem’s radical agenda, which includes pushing the transgender ideology in kindergartens
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/07/national-donations-help-transgender-win-statehouse-race-virginia/

Laura Ingraham on Ed Gillespie: If You Try to Be Half-In Half-Out with Trump – You End Up Political Road Kill
Laura Ingraham hammered Ed Gillespie after his loss Tuesday in the Virginia gubernatorial race.
Gillespie tried to play both sides of the GOP pro-Trump and Party elite — And lost… BIGLY.
Laura Ingraham: Remember last night, what did I say? My book, “Billionaire at the Barricades Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump,” I made this point really consistently that there is no middle ground with conservative populism. That is the wave of the future. That there is no constituency for open borders, open markets, and endless military interventionalism.

Dem Wins in Virginia, New Jersey: Not a Repudiation of Trump, but a Warning
Pundits are calling Tuesday’s results a repudiation of Trump. That is more than a stretch: it is flatly contradicted by some of the data. Republican Jill Vogel, running for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia, hitched herself to Trump and out-performed the GOP establishment candidate at the top of the ticket, Ed Gillespie, by tens of thousands of votes.
It would be more accurate to point out that, once again, the Republican establishment came up short. Someone in the Gillespie campaign actually thought it would be a good idea to campaign with Condoleezza Rice — who, for all her merits, is a relic of the George W. Bush administration. Gillespie belatedly embraced Trump supporters, but it seems clear from local results that there were more than a few conservatives who were reluctant to be seduced. A late conversion might have been possible for another candidate, but not one who had already run and lost statewide.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/07/dem-wins-virginia-new-jersey-not-repudiation-trump-warning/

Democrat ‘Not Excited’ to Vote Northam: ‘Purely a Vote for the Democratic Party’

NeverTrump ‘Republicans’ Gloat over Democrat Victory in Virginia
The small but vocal contingent of “NeverTrump” Republicans — those who swore never to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, even if that meant handing the country to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats — were exuberant Tuesday night, as Republican gubernatorial candidates went down to defeat in New Jersey and Virginia.
It was the first “victory” for NeverTrump, who cast Tuesday’s result as a vindication of their warnings about Trump.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/07/nevertrump-republicans-gloat-democrat-victory-virginia/

2 Comments

Filed under Bernie Sanders, Bill de Blasio, Democrats, Donald Trump, Elections, Laura Ingraham, Republicans

by | November 7, 2017 · 1:15 pm

Regular Daily Stuff

Journalists Retell Their Election Night Horror Stories
‘People were throwing up. People were on the floor crying’
“Crooked Media” podcast host and former senior political correspondent for MTV News Ana Marie Cox recalled how some of her friends worried about their future.
“A Muslim colleague of mine called his mother. She was worried he was going to be the victim of violence at any moment,” Cox said. “A colleague who is gay and married was on the phone with her wife saying, ‘They’re not going to take this damn ring away from me.'”
Editor of the New Yorker David Remnick discussed his sudden revelation that journalists need to “put pressure on power,” once Trump was elected.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/journalists-retell-election-night-horror-stories/

Trump’s Koigate Is Fake News Spun by Shameless White House Press Corps
An otherwise uneventful photo op with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been falsely spun by the White House press corps as a massive diplomatic blunder.
During the photo op, Trump and Abe were feeding koi in a pond below the balcony with spoons.
After several spoonfuls, PM Abe dumps his box of fish food into the pond. Trump follows in kind.

FROM HUFFPO
Watch as Donald Trump totally gives up on feeding fish in Japan
https://pjmedia.com/trending/trumps-koigate-fake-news-spun-shameless-white-house-press-corps/

CNN Deceptively Edits to Preserve Anti-Trump Narrative

Fox News yanks Tom Steyer ad calling for Trump’s impeachment
What was Fox thinking agreeing to run his ad in the first place, let alone running it during “Fox & Friends,” POTUS’s favorite show? Steyer must have paid them a small fortune to make it worth their while, knowing how Trump himself and Fox’s extremely pro-Trump audience would react.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/06/fox-news-yanks-tom-steyer-ad-calling-trumps-impeachment/

Menendez could remain in Senate even if he’s convicted
Republicans would likely try to expel the New Jersey lawmaker, but Democrats are expected to delay.
But expelling Menendez — even if he is convicted of a felony — might not be that easy.
Republicans need a two-thirds majority in the Senate to agree to expel a member, which means they would need Democratic votes. With partisan tensions so high — Democrats are still bitter that Republicans denied President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland the seat last year, among a host of other issues — they are in no mood to cooperate with the GOP majority.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/06/robert-menendez-trial-senate-jury-244581

Democrat Ted Lieu Walks Out of Moment of Silence for Texas Victims
My colleagues right now are doing a moment of silence in the House of Representatives chambers. I respect their right to do that, and I myself have participated in many of them.
But I can’t do this again. I’ve been to too many moments of silences [sic]. In just my short career in Congress, three of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history have occurred. I will not be silent.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/11/07/democrat-ted-lieu-walks-moment-silence-texas-victims/

The heroes of Sutherland Springs
IF YOU READ ONLY ONE ARTICLE, MAKE IT THIS ONE
Any gun-control measure that is sweeping enough to make a dent in the country’s gun stock and render gun ownership difficult enough to, at the margins, keep firearms out of the hands of psychopaths will inevitably affect law-abiding people as well. In places like rural Texas that would rightly be considered a serious imposition.
Without a gun, if something goes wrong, the only option is sitting and waiting for the authorities to show up.
And the likes of Stephen Willeford and Johnnie Langendorff, obviously, aren’t the waiting kind.
http://nypost.com/2017/11/06/the-heroes-of-sutherland-springs/

Donna Brazile ACTUALLY CHALLENGED Clinton’s Top Male Staffers To A Dick Measuring Contest

Kellyanne Conway Turns the Tables on CNN’s Brian Stelter
CNN has unfortunately, as Conway correctly notes, recast itself from a network that at least pretended not to be liberal – which introduced an element of balance into its coverage – to one that is clearly over on the left with MSNBC.
So, faced immediately with a predictably hostile line of questioning, Conway fought back and made CNN the issue instead of President Trump.

The obligatory “If you ask for a ‘lawyer dog,’ are you invoking your right to counsel?” post
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR
A few days old but no less shocking with the passage of time.
“This is how I feel, if y’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do it so why don’t you just give me a lawyer dog ’cause this is not what’s up.” The punctuation, arguably critical to Demesme’s use of the sobriquet “dog,” was provided by the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office in a brief, and then adopted by Louisiana Associate Supreme Court Justice Scott J. Crichton.
The charges: Aggravated rape and indecent behavior with a juvenile. That’s heavy stuff, not the sort of defendant whom a judge is eager to let walk away on a technicality. What happened here, I think, is that the court went looking for a reason to ignore Demesme’s request for an attorney, fearing that he was a very dangerous offender, and seized on that conditional “if y’all think I did it” to claim that he never unambiguously asked for one

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/02/obligatory-ask-lawyer-dog-invoking-right-counsel-post/

 

5 Comments

Filed under Democrats, Donald Trump, Donna Brazile, Elections, Gun Control, Kellyanne Conway, Republicans, Robert Menendez, Sutherland, U.S. Senate

by | November 7, 2017 · 2:15 am

Day of Reckoning in Virginia

There’s been a pitched battle taking place in Virginia for months. It will all come to a head today. Ed Gillespie, former head of the RNC and Vietnam veteran is facing a typical socialist hack named Ralph Northam to replace the vile, repugnant Terry Mcauliffe. McAuliffe literally stole the governor’s mansion with illegal votes and looks like he has plans to do it again in the future. Democrats just can’t let go… ever.

Democrats Getting Last Minute Willies In VA Gov Race, And Did Ralph Northam Lie About His Military Career?
In a few hours, the polls will open in Virginia. Democratic candidate Ralph Northam, the lieutenant governor of the state, is in a tight race with Republican Ed Gillespie. This shouldn’t have been a big issue for Democrats. Incumbent Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is popular. It’s the only southern state that Hillary Clinton won. It’s trending bluish—and Donald Trump is not popular here. And yet, here we are—one of the most critical races of the year, though some Virginia voters probably don’t even know that tomorrow is Election Day.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/11/06/democrats-getting-last-minute-willies-in-va-gov-race-and-did-ralph-northam-lie-a-n2405713

Jill Vogel on Tuesday’s Virginia Election: ‘This Will Define the Future of Virginia for a Generation’
Virginia Republican lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Jill Vogel told Matthew Boyle, Breitbart News’s Washington political editor, on Breitbart News Saturday SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 that Tuesday’s Virginia election “will define the future of Virginia for a generation.”
Vogel added, “I have never seen an election where the stakes were higher or where the rhetoric and the vile nature of the messaging from the Democrats had such an impact on an election
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/04/vogel-tuesdays-virginia-election-define-future-virginia-generation/

Barbara Favola Calls Virginia Republicans ‘Evil’

Things Fall Apart: Last Days Of Virginia Governor’s Race Has Democrats In A ‘Circular Firing Squad’
Northam, who is the lieutenant governor of the state, boasted about being the deciding vote in the state Senate that blocked banning sanctuary cities. The Virginia Democrat surely isn’t acting like he’s in the lead. In fact, the attacks on Republican Ed Gillespie in the past few days have reeked of desperation. There must be something in the internal polling that has him and his people spooked because this has become a campaign that seems to be going off the hinges. First, Democracy for Action, the progressive group that called Northam’s campaign “racist” after the sanctuary city position reversal.
DFAaction announced tonight it would no longer support @RalphNortham, called his campaign “racist”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/11/03/things-fall-apart-last-days-of-virginia-governors-race-has-virginia-democrats-in-a-circular-firing-squad-n2404326

Northam Insists There is Enthusiasm And Unity in Governor’s Race

Ralph Northam’s Top Ten Blunders During Virginia Governor Race
Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam’s campaign experienced many setbacks during his race for Virginia governor against Republican candidate Ed Gillespie.
Ten of Ralph Northam’s greatest blunders are:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/04/ralph-northams-top-ten-blunders-virginia-governor-race/

PBS Analyst: If Dems Lose In Virginia, It’ll Be ‘Close to Civil War Within the Democratic Party’
With statewide elections on Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey, the PBS NewsHour week-in-review segment strangely focused on Democrats for a change. Liberal analyst Mark Shields shocked PBS anchor Judy Woodruff by saying if Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor, Ralph Northam, can’t defeat Republican Ed Gillespie with his alleged Trump baggage, there will be hell to pay:
But I will say this, that it’s proof, more than anything else, to me of how little Barack Obama cared about the Democratic Party or about politics. He was great at getting elected. He got a national majority twice in a row. Nobody had done that since Eisenhower. He was leaving the party $24 million in debt, therefore, vulnerable to Hillary Clinton’s coterie of big givers. Bernie Sanders didn’t have big givers, as we know.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2017/11/04/pbs-analyst-if-dems-lose-virginia-itll-be-close-civil-war-within

Republican Ed Gillespie: A Reagan conservative tries to appeal and prevail in the age of Trump
Gillespie, communications ace, former lobbyist, and senior aide to President George W. Bush, will find out Tuesday if Virginia voters will send a Reagan conservative to the Virginia governor’s mansion in the era of Donald Trump.
Should Gillespie succeed, he would become the first Republican elected statewide in Virginia since Bob McDonnell led his party’s sweep of statewide offices in 2009. He would likely have a GOP-controlled legislature to pass a broad agenda of bills he could sign into law.
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/republican-ed-gillespie-a-reagan-conservative-tries-to-appeal-and/article_b353e7bb-1003-5160-9fea-59d33c0953eb.html

Wanda Sykes Urges Virginia Residents To Vote Against White Supremacy Enablers In Election PSA

“When the violence of White Supremacists in Charlottesville Virginia shocked the nation, Republican president Donald Trump failed to condemn it,” Sykes says in the 80-second clip. “In Virginia, the Republican candidate for Governor, Ed Gillespie, who has been endorsed by Donald Trump, has been complicit.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wanda-sykes-urges-virginia-residents-183701658.html

Virginia Gov. (and Longtime Clinton Pal) Terry McAuliffe Rips Brazile Book: ‘Nobody Cares’
Appearing on MSNBC with Katy Tur, McAuliffe — himself a former DNC chair — didn’t mince words when asked about Brazile’s claims.
“Nobody cares about what Donna Brazile has said in a book,” McAuliffe said. “Nobody.”
“Let me be clear, and you can play this back on Wednesday morning,” McAuliffe told Tur. “We are going to win the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general [races].”
The chat concluded with a cringe-worthy exchange between Tur — who’d pressed on the softening poll numbers and the Donna Brazile claims — and McAuliffe.
“Katy, you gotta enjoy life a little bit more,” McAuliffe said.

Virginia Gov. (and Longtime Clinton Pal) Terry McAuliffe Rips Brazile Book: ‘Nobody Cares’

‘Morning Joe’ Panel Questions Odds of Northam Winning Gubernatorial Race

D.C. Democratic Mayor: Gillespie’s Tax Cuts Are Going to ‘Kill Us’

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) spoke on Saturday at a “Get Out The Vote” canvassing event in Arlington, Va. where she claimed Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie’s tax cuts will “kill us.”
Speaking with Democratic supporters and campaign volunteers, Bowser talked about the importance of believing “climate change is real” and said Democrats will focus on transportation and education before mentioning Republican candidate Ed Gillespie’s plan for tax cuts.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/d-c-democratic-mayor-gillespies-tax-cuts-kill-us/

Comments Off on Day of Reckoning in Virginia

Filed under Democrats, Donna Brazile, Elections, News Media, Race Relations, Republicans, Terry McAuliffe

by | November 6, 2017 · 12:22 pm

In Other News

This post will likely meander from here to there, occasionally making sense, but most of the time not. In other words, the usual babble.

Anti-Trump Prince Alwaleed – a BIG Clinton DONOR – is Jailed in Corruption Sweep in Saudi Arabia

In December 2015 Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal slammed Donald Trump for proposing a ban on Muslim immigrants in the US until the government could alleviate security concerns.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a top Clinton Foundation donor.

Campus Watch reported:   Some are upset that the Clinton Foundation accepted donations from Middle Eastern countries with terrible records on women’s rights. In “Hillary Clinton Faces Test of Record as Women’s Advocate,” the New York Times writes:

Saudi Arabia has been a particularly generous benefactor to the Clinton Foundation, giving at least $10 million since 2001, according to foundation disclosures. At least $1 million more was donated by Friends of Saudi Arabia, co-founded by a Saudi Prince.

On Sunday Prince Alaweed was arrested in a corruption sweep.

Anti-Trump Prince Alwaleed – a BIG Clinton DONOR – is Jailed in Corruption Sweep in Saudi Arabia

Sen. Rand Paul Assaulted by Next-door Neighbor

“Paul told troopers that his neighbor came onto his property and tackled him from behind, forcing him to the ground and causing pain.”
THE SENATOR WAS ASSAULTED WHILE MOWING HIS LAWN. CAN YOU IMAGINE ANY DEMOCRAT ACTUALLY DOING YARD WORK? MOST OF THEM HAVE ILLEGALS DOING THEIR LANDSCAPING.

“Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault. The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police,” says Kelsey Cooper, State Communications Director for Office of U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY).

[CtH: I read on Facebook that Rand suffered serious rib fractures, not just cracked, but actually broken.]

Warren County Regional Jail has the spelling listed as Rene Albert Bousher.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/11/sen-rand-paul-assaulted-by-next-door-neighbor/

Alabama Fan Puts Cigarette In Face Of Cop, Gets Dragged Out
One Alabama fan decided to try and press her luck Saturday night at Bryant-Denny stadium by enjoying a smoke break from her seat when a police officer asked her to put it out.

Sarcastically, she puts the cigarette up to the officer’s face, almost as if she was offering him a drag.

The officer was not amused, as he brought out the handcuffs immediately.

SHE WAS TAKEN DOWN HARD. LUCKILY SHE’S WHITE — OTHERWISE THE OFFICERS WOULD BE FORCED TO UNDERGO SENSITIVITY TRAINING.

http://www.wafb.com/story/36768707/watch-alabama-fan-arrested-after-putting-cigarette-in-officers-face

Trump greets Japanese emperor with a handshake and nod – but no bow
U.S. President Donald Trump greeted Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Monday with a genteel handshake and nod, but no bow, avoiding the pitfall of U.S. President Barack Obama who was criticized at home for his deep bow to the monarch.
Hillary Clinton shook hands and air-kissed the empress on both cheeks, then took her hand as they entered the palace when she met the royal pair as secretary of state in 2011, a month or so after the triple disasters of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown hit northeastern Japan in March of that year.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-greets-japanese-emperor-with-a-handshake-and-nod-but-no-bow/ar-AAuubvt?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=UE12DHP

Democrats’ civil war isn’t bringing them closer to understanding why they lost
Much of the base wants to go “full Bernie,” and embrace free college and national health insurance. Yet this ignores the fact that Bernie Sanders did so well in the primaries mainly because Clinton was the same horrible candidate she’s always been.

This wing of the party thinks President Barack Obama was too centrist. Hmm: Is that why the party lost 14 governorships plus nine Senate and 60-plus House seats on his watch?

http://nypost.com/2017/11/05/democrats-civil-war-isnt-bringing-them-closer-to-understanding-why-they-lost/

Shutdown threat growing over immigration fight
Democrats believe they have leverage to demand an immigration deal going into the end-of-year negotiations because GOP leadership will likely need their votes to keep the government open.

They are signaling, despite the decision from the president, that they will keep DACA in the December talks until Republicans show they can pass a spending bill on their own.
“Unless Republicans can keep the government open without Democratic votes, this is not their decision to make. I have yet to see any evidence that they will be able to do that,” said Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.

Shutdown threat growing over immigration fight 

Anthony Weiner to begin prison sentence for sexting conviction
MEANWHILE BOWE BERGDAHL IS HAVING A BEER AT THE BOWLING ALLEY.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., will begin his 21 month prison sentence on Monday after being found guilty of sexting a 15-year-old girl.  Weiner, 53, was sentenced in September after court papers showed that he repeatedly encouraged an underage girl to undress and fondle herself over Skype, The Daily News reported.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/06/anthony-weiner-to-begin-prison-sentence-for-sexting-conviction.html

Nancy Pelosi Asked About DNC Rigging Primary For Hillary: “I’m Not Interested In What Went On Within The DNC”

Donna Brazile Working As DNC Chair Was Worse Than Hurricane Katrina

Paul Ryan: We Will Not Interfere With Russia Investigation

Democrats Drive Toward the Cliff and Hit the Gas

We’ve long called the GOP “The Stupid Party,” and it certainly deserves the nickname, but what’s the right family-friendly adjective for the Democrat Party? “The Moronic Party?” “The Mind-Bogglingly Nuts Party?” What moniker best reflects a party you dare not trust with power? These people are to governing as Kevin Spacey is to babysitting.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/11/06/democrats-drive-toward-the-cliff-and-hit-the-gas-n2405198

SPOILER ALERT: TOMORROW IS THE VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST. I HAVE SOME THINGS CACHED TO POST ABOUT IT.

1 Comment

Filed under Anthony Weiner, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Donald Trump, Donna Brazile, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Republicans

by | November 6, 2017 · 11:15 am

I Didn’t Plan to Do This

Since it’s the 800 pound gorilla in the room I guess I have to do this, although there’s plenty of other things to talk about.
Sutherland Springs, Texas: small, rural town where people regularly gather to worship God and fellowship together. A slimy, belly-crawling reptile named Devin Patrick Kelley decided to shoot up the church his ex-wife’s family attended. He was in the military from 2010-2014 before he was court martialed for two violations of the UCMJ for domestic battery on his wife and child.

He killed 26 people and wounded 20, including the pastor’s 14 year old daughter. WHO IN THE NAME OF HEAVEN KILLS KIDS??

‘Hero’ neighbor got his rifle, shot at Texas church gunman
Johnnie Langendorf was credited with chasing this puke down

“I pulled up to the intersection where the shooting happened and I saw two men exchanging gunfire, the other being a citizen of the community,” he said. “The shooter of the church had taken off, fled in his vehicle, and the other gentleman came and he said, ‘We need to pursue him,’ that he just shot up the church. So that’s what I did. I just acted.”
Langendorff said he hadn’t seen the concerned neighbor before, but knew he was from the area.
http://nypost.com/2017/11/05/hero-neighbor-got-his-rifle-shot-at-texas-church-gunman/

Stephen Willeford managed to shoot Devin Kelley before jumping in another man’s truck and chasing him down, the Daily Mail reported.
An area resident told the paper that Willeford, an avid biker who attends another church, learned about the shooting when his daughter called to say a man clad in body armor was shooting worshipers.
The local said that although Willeford has no military background, he didn’t hesitate when he came face to face with the suspect — and managed to squeeze off a round that struck the gunman, who had dropped his Ruger AR-15 variant.

AS PREDICTABLE AS SUNSHINE AFTER A RAINFALL ,THE LEFT SPRANG INTO ACTION, BLAMING GUNS AND CELEBRATING THE DEATHS OF WHITE CHRISTIANS
Chelsea Handler Blames ‘Republicans’ for Texas Church Shooting

I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS PIG IS AND DON’T MUCH CARE
“Nobody is trying to take away your guns,” she added. “If you want to go shoot, you know, whatever, in the woods, that’s fine, but it’s a hobby. If your hobby is [affecting] innocent people being killed all the time, children included, don’t you think you should reconsider the lack of restrictions placed on your hobby?”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/11/05/chelsea-handler-blames-republicans-texas-church-shooting/

YOU KNEW THIS PRICK COULDN’T RESIST
Obama Uses Texas Church Massacre To Call For Fewer Guns

“We grieve with all the families in Sutherland Springs harmed by this act of hatred, and we’ll stand with the survivors as they recover,” Obama wrote on Twitter. “May God also grant all of us the wisdom to ask what concrete steps we can take to reduce the violence and weaponry in our midst.”
Obama, who has taken an unusually active role during his successor’s administration, offered no specific details on what those steps to reduce the guns “in our midst” would look like.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/05/obama-uses-texas-church-massacre-to-call-for-fewer-guns/

COMPARE AND CONTRAST HIS COMMENTS WITH THE PRESIDENT
Trump Says Church Shooting Is Mental Health Problem, Not Gun Problem
Trump confronted news of the worst church shooting in American history Monday in a televised address from Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in which he called the shooting an “act of evil,” offered his administration’s full support to the people of Texas, and called the shooting a mental health issue, according to the Associated Press. While Democratic senators almost immediately began calling for gun control in the wake of the attack, Trump claimed that the real issue the derangement of the shooter, not guns.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/06/trump-says-church-shooting-is-mental-health-problem-not-gun-problem/

The mind is numb, the soul aches, we’re not perfect but we try to make sense of the senseless.

4 Comments

Filed under Barack Obama, Crime, Donald Trump, Gun Control, Sutherland

by | November 5, 2017 · 11:03 am

How the Mighty Have Fallen

They were the most feared power couple since Antony and Cleopatra. They ran roughshod over the democrat party and made a mockery of the rule of law. Bill Clinton was the most accomplished liar of his time and his partner spent her time committing fraud and outright theft, and made sure none of her husband’s sexual assault victims dared to breathe a word of what he did to them. From the day he left office in January of 2001 it was assumed Hillary would be given the reins of power after George W. Bush.

Then the dupes in the enslaved press fell madly, blindly, passionately in love with a Chicago street hustler who attained absolutely everything he had on the basis of his race.
Frustrated because as a community organizer he knew how to stack caucuses in the early primaries, he eventually pushed her out. She’d previously been given a seat in the Senate from New York, where they slithered off to after leaving the White House (and stealing a lot of historic artifacts the Secret Service had to retrieve) because democrats outnumber republicans 3 to 1 there and she was a shoo-in after shoving out Nita Lowey, who was ordered to step aside to give Hillary the gig.

Apparently Obama made a deal to appoint her Secretary of State to get her out of town and allow her to pick up hundreds of millions from countries who expected payback after she assumed the throne that was rightfully hers. The whole world knew the Clintons operated a cash machine. Want anything? It’ll cost you. Like Charlie Trie once said: There was a turnstile at the front of the white House. You had to pay to get inside.

FAST FORWARD TO 2017: The mask is off. The democrat party no longer fears her. She has no power, wields no influence. The Clinton money laundering machine has ground to a halt because they have nothing to offer but bitterness and excuses about how it’s everybody else’s fault she was denied her destiny.

DNC chair almost replaced Hillary Clinton with Joe Biden as candidate after her collapse at 9/11 memorial
HILLARY WOULD HAVE EATEN BRAZILE’S LIVER IF SHE’D TRIED TO DO THAT… LET’S BE REAL

Brazile, in her tell-all memoir of the contentious 2016 presidential race, reveals she pondered yanking Clinton off the ballot after she collapsed while leaving a Ground Zero memorial service.

By then, the Clinton campaign was permeated by the “odor of failure” and Brazile thought the sitting vice president might energize the troops, according to The Washington Post.

“Again and again I thought about Joe Biden,” Brazile writes in the book. “(But) no matter my doubts and my fears about the election and Hillary as a candidate, I could not make good on my threat to replace her.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/dnc-chair-replaced-clinton-biden-2016-candidate-article-1.3611158

Donna Brazile Unleashed! Clinton Campaign Treated Me Like “Slave” – Blasts Egomaniacs Obama & Wasserman Schultz
KEEP TELLING YOURSELF: SHE’S TRYING TO SELL A BOOK

As one of her party’s most prominent black strategists, Brazile also recounts fiery disagreements with Clinton’s staffers — including a conference call in which she told three senior campaign officials, Charlie Baker, Marlon Marshall and Dennis Cheng, that she was being treated like a slave.

“I’m not Patsey the slave,” Brazile recalls telling them, a reference to the character played by Lupita Nyong’o in the film, “12 Years a Slave.” “Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl!”

Donna Brazile Unleashed! Clinton Campaign Treated Me Like “Slave” – Blasts Egomaniacs Obama & Wasserman Schultz

Former Clinton Official: Brazile ‘Absolutely’ Lied That Clinton Controlled DNC During Primary

McAuliffe on DNC Controversy: ‘Regrettable’ and ‘Very Bad Timing’

I STILL HATE THIS PUNK

DNC Chairman Promises To Reform Party’s Presidential Nominating Process
Perez’s column on Medium, entitled “Making 2020 Transparent,” was a response to revelations by former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile last week that in a signed agreement the committee had effectively surrendered its independence to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in August 2015 ― months before 2016 presidential primary voters went to the polls. Many supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) interpreted the news as confirmation that the party had treated him unfairly.

[CtH: The corruption of the DNC’s process was obvious in 2008, when Hillary actually won the nomination on votes, but they gave it to Obama anyway.]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dnc-chairman-promises-to-reform-partys-presidential-nominating-process/ar-AAusZap?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE12DHP

WELL, AT LEAST THE LEFT DOESN’T HATE THE BUSHES ANY MORE

Trump Is a ‘Blowhard,’ ‘I Don’t Like Him’ and I Voted for Hillary, George Bush Says in New Book
THIS MESSAGE IS AIMED AT THE 12 DEMOCRATS WHO CAN ACTUALLY READ.

Both former President Bushes had choice words for current President Donald Trump in a new book scheduled to be published later this month, with the elder Bush reportedly calling the billionaire commander-in-chief a “blowhard” and flatly stating he does not “like” him.

Furthermore, both ex-presidents admitted they did not vote for Trump. The elder Bush pulled the lever for Democrat Hillary Clinton while the younger told Updegrove he voted for “none of the above.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-blowhard-don-t-him-125547823.html

8 Comments

Filed under Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Donna Brazile, Hillary Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Tom Perez

by | November 5, 2017 · 5:52 am

A Call to Action from the Garden

This article caught my eye because my grandson Tyler is also nine years old and has been battling cancer for the past two years. His Chemotherapy protocol is scheduled to end next month and if there are no signs of activity he may be able to stop. This young boy isn’t as lucky. Imagine knowing you won’t see Christmas this year. The heartbreak for his family must be unbearable.
HERE’S THE DEAL:
Cancer patient, 9, asks for holiday cards for his last Christmas

Christmas is coming just a little bit early this year for Jacob Thompson.

The 9-year-old has a passion for penguins, Legos and “Star Wars,” but he especially loves the holiday season, his stepmother, Tara Artinyan told WXYZ.

Jacob was diagnosed with Stage 4 high-risk nueroblastoma when he was 5 years old. He was admitted to Portland’s Barabara Bush Children’s Hospital for the “last time” on Oct. 11, when doctors told the family he likely wouldn’t make it to Christmas.

According to the American Cancer Society, only half of the children diagnosed with the disease survive past 5 years of age.

“Jacob loves the holiday season,” his mother, Michelle Thompson Simard told Good Housekeeping. “And we want him to know that Christmas wishes come true and that there are good people who care all around the world.”

The 9-year-old’s wish? That everyone send him Christmas cards so that he can celebrate his favorite holiday early.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cancer-patient-9-asks-holiday-cards-christmas-article-1.3611054?cid=bitly

OK, FOLKS…. WE ALL HAVE CHRISTMAS CARDS AROUND AND WE HAVE A STAMP. I PROMISE YOU’LL FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF IF YOU TOOK 2 MINUTES TO SEND THIS YOUNG MAN A CARD. I’M SURE ONCE THE WORD GETS AROUND HE’LL GET A LOT, BUT I’M ASKING YOU AS A FAVOR TO REPRESENT OUR LITTLE GARDEN TO SHOW JACOB HE IS LOVED.

If you’re interested in sending in cards, address them to:

Jacob Thompson

C/O Maine Medical Center

22 Bramhall St.

Portland, ME 04102

1 Comment

Filed under Family & Friends

by | November 4, 2017 · 6:48 am

Gird Your Loins

Today is a day we face with some trepidation. The mighty forces of the Antifa liberators are planning to appear in a number of cities across America in a show of force. They will don their hankies so their moms won’t know what they’re doing when they sneak out of the basement with their bottles of urine and Army surplus gas masks. One certainty is the press will pay far more attention to these pussies than they have the primary rigging, Uranium One, and the Menendez corruption trial.

On November 4th The Antifa Insurgency Against Donald Trump And His Supporters Will Begin

I have seen various lists of cities were Antifa protests are planned floating around the Internet, but I felt that it was important to go right to the source. According to refusefascism.org, this is the official list of cities where activists will be gathering on November 4th…

Austin
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
New York City
Omak
Philadelphia
Pittsfield
Portland
Salem
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/on-november-4th-the-antifa-insurgency-against-donald-trump-and-his-supporters-will-begin
NOTICE THEY ARE STAYING CLEAR OF PLACES LIKE ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, KENTUCKY, AND TEXAS. (AUSTIN DOESN’T COUNT AS TEXAS.)

Anti-fascist group plans downtown rally, says claims of planned violence ‘a hoax’
A new anti-fascist group plans a rally Saturday in downtown Portland – part of series scheduled in cities across the country – but the demonstrations have whipped up a heap of warnings by right-wing groups on social media that the gatherings will signal a “civil war.”
Robert Brown, lead organizer for the Portland event, dismissed the claims of planned violence as “nonsense” and a “hoax” intended to scare people from participating in the march
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/11/anti-fascist_group_plans_downt.html

Safe Streets Project Vows to Disrupt Antifa, Black Bloc Domestic Terror Riots on Nov. 4
An organization called Refuse Fascism has more far-left protests planned all over the country to commemorate the election of Donald Trump and the electoral upset on November 4. The idea is to take to the streets until Trump and Pence resign. Seriously. This footage of Refuse Fascism activists hyping the coming chaos was taken on Halloween night on the streets of Chicago.

Refuse Fascism claims their protests will be nonviolent. But domestic terror groups Antifa and Black Bloc may have other plans.
“Our core team consists of senior military, threat intelligence, business leaders, technical, S.W.A.T., and private military contractor professionals determined to use their deep convictions and connections to put an end to violent Antifa riots and associated crimes against decent men and women who believe in free speech in the United States,” he said.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/safe-streets-project-vows-disrupt-antifa-black-bloc-domestic-terror-riots-nov-4/

6 Comments

Filed under Antifa